In pregnancy, there are two bodies, one inside the other. Two people live under one skin.... When so much of life is dedicated to maintaining our integrity as distinct beings, this bodily tandem is an uncanny fact.

Joan Raphael-Leff

God's interest in the human race is nowhere better evinced than in obstetrics

I begin to love this creature,
and to anticipate her birth
as a fresh twist to a knot,
which I do not wish to untie

Mary Wollstonecraft

All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming/growing/turning/floating/swimming deep, deep inside

Crescent Dragonwagon

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some isappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain

Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the most hideous example of government interference in the private lives of individuals. It's an outrage within an outrage within an outrage.